Prakhar Sood is currently a Senior Specialist Architect at Pramerica Systems Ireland, where he designs and manages teams working on CA identity and access management solutions. He has over 10 years of experience in identity and access management, previously working at CA Technologies, SDG Corporation, and TCS. His expertise includes implementing and customizing solutions from CA, Oracle, PingFederate, and ForgeRock.

1. Prakhar Sood
Currently Working with Pramerica Systems as Sr Security Architect.
Past Employment CA Technologies as Principal Identity and Access Management
Engineer, SDG Corporation & TCS (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Email : sood.prakhar@gmail.com, Phone : Contact # +353 (0) 894581105
Experience Summary
• Currently working with Pramerica Systems Ireland as a Senior Specialist Architect in their
Architecture and Engineering team (AT&E), designing the CA Advanced Security &
Identity Manager solution along with Tivoli FIM & Apigee Edge managing a team of 20+
Engineers within the IAM Architecture team in Ireland & US.
• Customization of the CA Advance Authentication Solution to fulfil client requirements.
• Implementation of CA Privileged Access Manager (formerly Xceedium) in the
Infrastructure Security space.
• Previously working with CA Technologies as a Principal Security Engineer / Architect
handling a team of 11 Engineers and handling critical escalations/issues of various
clients on their Siteminder SSO, Federation, CA IDM ( Identity Minder ), PIM ( Access
Control ), RCM, CloudMinder & Layer 7 Security Product Suite for 4+ years.
• Sr. Software Engineer past working with SDG Noida for GE SSO Integration Project for
last 2+ years on CA Siteminder, Oracle Access Manager (OAM), ForgeRock OpenAM
and Ping Federation .
• Associate with 1 years and 6 month of experience in development and maintenance with
Tata Consultancy Services.
• IAM Architecture, Design, Implementation, Consulting, Development Security
Management.
• Sun Certified Training on Oracle/SUN IDM and hands-on experience on same .
• Strong and field of interest in Oracle , PL/SQL, Core Java, J2EE, Unix, Perl/Shell
Scripting.
• Will be comfortable with any project with a little project specific training.
Technology:
Below is a list of important software products, tools and technologies that I have worked
with.
Identity and Access Management
Tools:
Softwares Tools

2. • CA Siteminder
• CA Strong Authentication
• CA Risk Authentication
• CA Identity Minder (IDM)
• CA Federation Manager
• Tivoli FIM
• CA Secure Proxy Server
• CA Layer 7 ( API Gateway )
• APIGEE Edge
• CA Cloudminder
• CA Access Control (PIM)
• CA PAM / Xceedium
• Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
• Ping Federate
• Forgerock OpenAM
• Oracle/Sun IDM
• OpenID Connect
• OAuth
• Linux, Solaris,
Windows OS
• Webservers:
Apache, IIS,
Iplanet, Domino
• Application Servers:
JBOSS, Servlet
Exec, Tomcat
• LDAP: AD, AD LDS
Oracle LDAP,
Novell DS, CA DS,
IBM DS
• DB: MSSQL,
Oracle, MySQL,
DB2
• Service Cloud
• Fiddler 2
• Wireshark
• SAML Authn
Encoder/Decoder
• SQL Developer
• BMC Patrol
• Remedy
• Sitescope
• Keynote
• Kintana
• Star Client
• SOAPUI
• RESTMON
Qualifications
Degree and Date Institute Major and Specialization
Bachelor of Engineering,
June 2008( 70.4%)
Awarded First Class with
Distinction
Sinhgad College of Engineering,
Pune University
Information Technology
Intermediate,
June 2004 (77.8.0%)
Dewan Public School, Meerut , Uttar
Pradesh
Physics, Chemistry,
Mathematics
HSC May 2002 (74.4%) Dewan Public School, Meerut , Uttar
Pradesh
All Streams
Other Technical Skills & certifications:
o Operating system: Linux, Solaris, Windows(2003, 2008, 2012)

3. o Special Software : Siteminder all versions, Federation, IDM, SPS, Layer 7
o Programming Languages: Pl/Sql, C++, Java, J2EE, Shell scripting, Unix,
XML,HTML
Professional Memberships / Certifications
Professional Society / Certification
Internal ITIL V3 Certified
CA Siteminder R12.5 Certified
CA Federation R12.5 Certified
CA Identity Manager R12.6 Certified
Assignments
The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here.
Project Prudential Architecture & Engineering Team
Client Prudential Financial
Duration Nov-2015 – Till Date
Description - Designing current Security solution using CA products
- Implementation CA Strong Authentication from scratch for multiple
Business Units at Prudential
- Implementation of CA Identity Manager from scratch for Prudential Users.
- Self Service Configuration on Windows endpoint agents.
- Implementation of CA Privileged Access Manager (formerly Xceedium) in
the Infrastructure Security space.
- Upgrading Siteminder infrastructure from R12.0SP3 to R12.52
- Implementation of new connections in TFIM with new Federated partners.
- Creating policies and publishing APIs in APIGEE Edge
- Integration of third-party products like Clickatell & Twilio for SMS
configuration to be used for OTP.
- Creating Project Plans and Architecture Diagrams
Role Sr Specialist Architect
Solution
Environment CA Strong Authentication, CA Riskminder, CA Siteminder, CA Identity Manager,
Apigee Edge, TFIM, IBM DS, DB2, Visio, MPP
Project Siteminder Support Team
Client CA Technologies Worldwide
Duration Sep-2011 – Oct-2015
Description - Working with the Global CA Security Team on handling critical client
escalations on all CA Security and API Management products.
- Gold Partner for 2 major CA clients Shell EU (Cloudminder) & ANZ Bank
Australia (Siteminder).
- Leading a strong team of 12 Security Support Engineers and providing
training on latest releases.
- Active part of the Product Management team and providing suggestions
and feedback on product enhancements and supportability.
- Handling issues and escalations on CA Layer 7 API Gateway.
- Working on CA Siteminder, CA Federation, CA Secure Proxy Server, CA
Identity Manager (IDM), CA Strong Authentication, CA Risk
Authentication, CA Cloudminder, CA Privileged Identity Manager (PIM)
and handling critical escalations for the same.

4. - Conducting trainings for the CA Education team for customers on all the
above mentioned products.
- Providing end to end Escalation support for all Siteminder customers
worldwide on all flavors of CA Identity & Access Management & API
Management.
Role Principal Software Engineer
Solution
Environment CA Siteminder, Federation Security Services, Federation Manager, SPS, Layer 7
SSG Gateway, API Portal, CA IDM, CA PIM, CA CloudMinder, CA Strong
Authentication, CA Risk Authentication.
Project Single Sign On Integration Team, SDG Software
Client GE General Electric ,USA
Duration May-2010 – Sep-2011
Description This is for maintenance and support of SSO. This project can be used to access
of all the application of GE by using only single user name and password. Single
Sign-On (SSO) is a utility jointly developed by the Information Technologies (IT)
and Interactive Enterprise Development (IED) groups. The SSO utility provides
security to web based applications. In doing so, it enables the use of a single
User ID for a customer to access all participating GE web sites
Role Team Member
Solution
Environment
Sun Solaris, Unix ,Linux, iplanet, IIS, Windows Boxes,JAVA/J2EE,Shell scripting
Oracle,Siteminder 6.0, 12.0, SUN IDM, LDAP, Ping Federate, OpenAM & OAM
Tools
Currently handling installation of Siteminder Web Agents, Deploying Siteminder
on various applications and different environments and troubleshooting SSO
Issues.
Highlights Handling an Implementation Team of Siteminder/IDM and onboarding
applications.
Responsibilities - Implementation of CA Siteminder R6 and R12 across the GE Corporate
- Onboarding new applications on different webserver platforms
- Integration of Siteminder with third-party products like Jira & Teamsite.
- Creating new connections with third-party Federated applications using
Ping Federate
- Test POC for Forgerock OpenAM & Oracle Access Manager
- Resolve issues related to Siteminder with applications integrated with
SSO Involved in getting permanent fix.
- Work with Global teams to collaborate and document best policies for
onboarding new applications.
Project Single Sign On, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Client American Express Technologies, Phoenix, USA
Duration Nov-2008 – Apr-2010
Description This is for maintenance and support of SSO. This project can be used to access of all
the application of American Express Bank by using only single user name and
password. Single Sign-On (SSO) is a utility jointly developed by the Information
Technologies (IT) and Interactive Enterprise Development (IED) groups. The SSO
utility provides security to web based applications. In doing so, it enables the use of a

5. single User ID for a customer to access all participating American Express web sites
Role Team Member
Solution
Environment
Sun Solaris, Unix ,Linux Boxes, JAVA/J2EE,Shell scripting Oracle, Siteminder, SUN
IDM,LDAP
Tools Eclipse, SQL Developer, BMC Patrol, SUN IDM, Sitescope, Keynote
Highlights Team Member of the IAM Support Team
Responsibilities - Estimation, Impact Analysis and Coding for various Change Requests
- Provided Backup lead maintenance from offshore
- Maintaining Siteminder 6.0, SUN IDM, Policy servers, Web servers and
Application servers.
- Managing all the day-to-day activities and to keep up the application
availability (99.91%) and performance(< 3.5 seconds) as per SLA
- ITIL process mapping and SSO service catalogue development
- To troubleshoot the issues related to Distributed Security Services (DSS) and
fix the same.
- Resolve issues related to Siteminder with applications integrated with SSO
Involved in getting permanent fix done in order to reduce the number of sev3
category IMRs.
Career Profile
Dates Organization Role
02/11/2015 - Till Date Pramerica Systems Technical Architect
21/09/2011 - 16/10/2015 CA Technologies Sr. Team Lead
01/05/2010 -10/09/2011 SDG Corporation Team Lead
10/11/2008 -16/04/2010 TATA Consultancy Services Team Member ( Back up lead) of
SSO Project of American
Express Bank
Training / Continuing Education Summary
Project Enhancement of CSS Portal
Customer American Express Technologies, Phoenix ,USA
Duration Done
Description This is for enhancement of CSS Portal. This project can be used to get even a single
information of all the issues and details of project since started.
Enhancement
Done
o Added a number of application in the system by changing and
enhancing the code at every tier.
o Added the functionality to get the availability of all applications in the
CSS Portal.
Role CSS Portal Enhancement Owner
Solution
Environment
JAVA/J2EE , Oracle
Tools Eclipse, SQL Developer
Highlights Performed nicely and got couple of rewards for good work and became
owner of CSS Portal Enhancement

6. Program or Course Coverage Dates
Initial Learning Program
of TCS
Software Engineering, Operating
System, Java 1.5, J2EE1.3,Oracle
10g
Nov 2008 to Feb 2009
SUN Certified Training in
SUN Identity Manger.
SUN IDM( Identity Manager) Dec 2009
Trainings conducted
Program or Course Presented to Location
Single Sign On Architecture American Express SSO Team Bangalore
Identity Manager American Express SSO Team Bangalore
CA Siteminder SDG SSO Team Noida
CA Siteminder R12.5 CA Education for Customers Hyderabad
CA Federation Manager CA Siteminder Support Team USA
CA Secure Proxy Server CA Siteminder Support Team Hyderabad
CA Layer 7 CA Global Services Team Hyderabad
CA Riskminder Prudential Security Team Ireland
CA IDM Integration Prudential Security Team Ireland
CA Security Solution Integration Prudential Security Team Ireland
Achievements

7. Achievements • BVPA Award for rolling out CA Advanced Authentication
successfully in Prudential within their GI BU.
• VIP Award for Implementation of Windows Password Reset using
CA Identity Manager Credential Manager for Windows across
Prudential and saving daily Customer Office calls for Password
Resets significantly
• Promoted to Prinicipal IAM Security Engineer at CA Technologies
• Got 2 Star award thrice in CA Technologies for Outstanding Project
Execution & Customer Service.
• Awarded 2 Star Award for Delighting Customers
• Awarded 2 Star Award for Imrpoving Customer Satisfaction
• Awarded 1 Star Award for achieving High IRD
• Awarded 2 Star Award for Reducing the EMEA Issue Backlog
• Awarded 1 Star Award for Taking High load during Peak Issue
Volume
• Awarded 1 Star Award for Training new joiners within the team
• Awarded 1 Star Award for High CSAT in the month of Nov-2014
• Also got awarded with lot of Team Competition prizes for reducing
the MTTR and Improving Customer Satisfaction as a Team
(Ocean’s 16 & Falcons)
• Customer Service Excellence Award for Delighting CA’s customers.
• Above and Beyond Award for handling Major Escalation worth a big
renewal deal worth $300 Million for CA
• Best performer in the Stream Training Batch of Oracle-PL/SQL.
• ILP Trivandrum Rating 4.9/5
• BE-I.T from Pune University with Distinction.
• Got Certificate of Appreciation from Project Senior Management for
doing good work in CSS Portal Enhancement and Capacity
Planning initiative.
• Community Champion for CA Security Communities
Extra-Curricular
Extra-
Curricular
• Headed Sponsorship for the event OSIRIS.
• Event Organizer for TRANSCEND.
• Arranged an Organization Level Event for Project Domain.
• Basketball Team Player for CA Technologies team.
• Badminton Team for Pramerica
Personal Details
Date of Birth 01-Nov-1986
Nationality Indian
Hobby Playing Basket Ball, Watching Movies, Singing
Passport Details
Name as on Passport Passport Number
Prakhar Sood J8513911